The US Department of Justice has indicted former speaker of the House of Representatives, Illinois Republican Dennis Hastert, who allegedly paid some $1.7 million to cover up financial misconduct and hid from the FBI information on large cash withdrawals, Efe news agency reported....
Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Missouri, were declared co-champions on Thursday night, CNN reported....
Former President Abdul Kalam, Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran and others at Columbia University earlier with Nobel Prize winner John Nash, who died in a car crash last week. ...
An Indian-American, who is serving prison term for carrying out insider trading, is hoping to be freed after an appeals court tossed two other insider-trading convictions, according to a media report....
A US court has sentenced an Indian-American student to life imprisonment for stabbing his friend to death in 2013, media reported. ...
The US administration will not seek Supreme Court protection to carry out President Barack Obama's immigration measures designed to normalise the status of five million undocumented foreigners, which he announced six months ago but the implementation of which a court temporarily put on hold....
Though he has been living in the US for the last four decades, Dr Thomas Abraham is still keeping his Indian citizenship, a very rare thing among the expatriates. He is eligible to hold any office in India. If an opportunity comes to take up one, will he accept it?...
The victims of forced conversions from India joined the pending lawsuit with US Federal Court seeking “Foreign Terrorist Organization†(FTO) status for a Hindu supremacist group. ...
An Indian-origin man born in Canada, who has been rendered stateless following a deportation order for criminal offences, is continuing his fight for citizenship in a federal court, a media report said Wednesday....
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, central minister for science and technology and earth sciences was the chief guest at the first anniversary celebrations of the BJP government in India organized by the Overseas Friends of BJP, USA, at Royal Alnerts Palace in Edison, New Jersey, May 26....
